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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Reading And Writing Syriac

Syriac, a major literary language in the Middle East from the 4th to 8th centuries, is not yet included in OS X. In order to read Unicode text in this script you will need to install the BethMardutho fonts. To input Syriac you need to install a keyboard layout found here.

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

Hey! Just noticed that you're using Blogger(made by Google) and that google has made their own Syriac fonts and released them here: http://www.google.com/get/noto/#/ They worked just fine for me (on Mac)